I read Matthew Reilly’s "Seven Ancient Wonders" last weekend. Book is on my favorite topic – Egypt!! Unfortunately this one reads like a kid’s book. The ease with which the main character of the book solves/crosses all those complex pyramidal snares/traps is ridiculous, to say the least. Anyway, I learnt something about the early water traps and Reilly’s description of Hanging gardens of Babylon was highly imaginative; I’d rate this book 2/5 – you can read it probably once, over flight or when waiting for your wife to finish her shopping I have started on his "Ice Station" next, lets see how it reads.

Last weekend, I also spent lots of time watching the entire 16 season of Survivors : Fans vs Favorites. I have never seen Survivors before, though I knew what the concept was. But, at no point of time I expected it to be so well made and so captivating! I thoroughly enjoyed the isolated environment, the idea of tribes/tribal council and the human dynamics that played out for survival. Wow…an amazing reality show. I personally liked Ozzie a lot in the show, very unfortunate Parvati fooled him in to quitting. I cannot wait for the next season to start!!

In the Wii front, today I got my Carnival games collection. My first impression: I don’t like many of the games included, hopefully multi-player will prove otherwise. Enough of my whining now…time for bed!

Great song. Even if you don’t necessarily agree with RichterScales‘ viewpoint, you need to admit it is funny. Click here to get the MP3 of this song.

This is a funny video of Conan O’Brien visiting Intel HQ at Santa Clara. I have never been to SC, but I can relate to what he says very well. In fact, the saying inside Intel is “If you have seen one, you have seen them all!”, this is very true for the buildings Intel builds. In Bangalore, Intel has a building at Outer ring road, which looks more or less similar to the SC building shown in the video, though I’d say not as lifeless and dull! The one at Airport road (where I am currently sitting) is not that bad, actually.

The movie is funny in its own way. If you have been ever left wondering, while watching a film, what the hell is happening, then I am sure you will love this film No complex plots, no need to exercise the grey cells, just plain pure fun. The events in this film unfold fast enough for you not to get bored. No fancy fight scenes, no gory octopus eating scenes, but still See you after school is extremely watchable, because of the way it has captured one full day of Dahl‘s life.

One of my favorite scenes is when Dahl’s friend teaches him the survival tactics, talking about Sharks, blowfish and stuff. Immediately after this, Dahl decides to apply what he learnt and unfortunately picks up the wrong “fish” – the school bully! People freeze, blowing wind stops, the school bully stares at the puny looking Dal and suddenly the school bully turns in to a shark and bites off Dahl’s head. Pretty good! To sum it up, this is one of the most enjoyable movies out there. My list of favorite Korean movies is actually increasing day by day!

BTW, the official site for this film, mentioned everywhere (http://www.oksang2006.com/) is not OFFICIAL anymore. It is just a parked domain, popping up ads and installing ActiveX components. Stay clear off that site.

Some links:

• Movie Trailer
• On the set video – 1
  
• On the set video – 2
• Thanks to Google, the full film is available here

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